NOTES: Hobbs, Robert. Robert Smithson: Sculpture. New York, NY: Smithmark Pub, 1981. Print.
p43:
-divided his work into two categories: ‘sites’ and ‘non-sites’
-sites= land art built on site, in nature
-non-sites= natural materials (ie rocks, dirt, sand) taken from nature and brought indoors to a museum, often combined with mirrors
-concept first presented in Artforum in Sept 1968, "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects"
- 1972, in a footnote to “The Spiral Jetty,” Smithson listed properties associated with the two states:
SITE:
1. Open Limits
2. A Series of Points
3. Outer Coordinates
4. Subtraction
5. Indeterminate Certainty
6. Scattered Information
7. Reflection
8. Edge
9. Some Place (physical)
10. Many
NONSITE:
Closed Limits
An Array of Matter
Inner Coordinates
Addition
Determinate Uncertainty
Contained Information
Mirror
Center
No Place (abstract)
One
p43:
-divided his work into two categories: ‘sites’ and ‘non-sites’
-sites= land art built on site, in nature
-non-sites= natural materials (ie rocks, dirt, sand) taken from nature and brought indoors to a museum, often combined with mirrors
-concept first presented in Artforum in Sept 1968, "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects"
- 1972, in a footnote to “The Spiral Jetty,” Smithson listed properties associated with the two states:
1. Open Limits
2. A Series of Points
3. Outer Coordinates
4. Subtraction5. Indeterminate Certainty
6. Scattered Information
7. Reflection
8. Edge
9. Some Place (physical)
10. Many
Closed Limits
An Array of Matter
Inner Coordinates
Addition
Determinate Uncertainty
Contained Information
Mirror
Center
No Place (abstract)
One
-